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In the wake of the severe cold wave, Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Trust in Mathura has decided to provide free shelter homes and distribute food to devotees and the homeless. According to IMD, similar conditions will also continue in the first half of the next week.
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The rail and road traffic in North India has come to a standstill following severe fog and intense cold wave. Most of the Delhi-NCR region was covered with a dense layer of fog. The intensity of fog is moreover East Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Sub Himalayan West Bengal. Parts of Haryana and West Uttar Pradesh also witnessed moderate to dense fog during the past day.
As cold wave has become hyperactive in northern states, normal life is crumpled in many states of the zone. Due to prevailing intense cold wave, Haryana government has decided to extend winter holidays in all schools across the state until 14th January.
North India continues to reel under intense cold wave conditions with mercury plummeting to several notches below normal at many places. Dense fog in the northern parts of the country, including Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Rajasthan, affected rail-road and air traffic heavily.
Chilling cold is ready to give its last stroke of the year in North India. MeT has predicted cold wave conditions are very likely at isolated places over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi. Other than North India, the same condition is predicted to remain in Telangana, North Interior Karnataka.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday said that this year winter can be colder than last year especially in the northern part of the country. As several deaths were reported due to the cold waves in the winter season, the IMD started issuing winter forecast last year. It is learned that on an average 780 people lose their lives every year, most of them are homeless people.
